Thread: Dipshit Thai of the week award - nominations here

Quid is to pound as buck is to dollar.

So on Sunday I call into SB Furniture to look at some furniture I had seen in their catalogue. The desk unit I had offered to purchase last month was labelled as having been sold, to a Thai.

I request an explanation and tell the manager I am still interested in buying the item. Sorry have no stock. I explain they had already lost ThB 40,000 of my money and I was now looking at another ThB 15,000 purchase.

Oh what do you want to buy? Beaming smile usually confined to missionaries.

Well first of all, this desk unit and book cabinet.

Cannot.

Sorry SB that is the end of my business with you. Their chairman is receiving a choice letter, in Thai, about how pointless it is to select furniture displayed in both their catalogue and showroom if my money is returned and the item sold to a Thai.

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Wot, no mention of "pennies"?

so what?

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I've seen this nonsense a lot and can only rationalise that when times get hard they get the idea that they can hit the regualr customers hard in the belief that loyalty will keep them coming back.

Doesn't work for me either....

^ ^ And I thought it was just me... Sometimes this forum can have a very cathartic effect and is quite relieving..

I bought a chicken on a spit at least once a week from the same vendor for over 5 years. In the time of the bird flu chaos his customers dropped off dramatically, although he continued to receive my custom. He reduced the amount of chickens he would cook to take into account the lack of demand. One day I pulled up and was lucky to get the last one, and told him to chop it up as I went to buy some som tam etc. Came back in 5 mins and there is this khunying with the bouffant hair walking away with a chicken. I asked him for mine but of course he had given it to her.

Never got another order from me obviously. Eventually he went bust so a big 'som nam naar' to him.

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

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I've seen this nonsense a lot and can only rationalise that when times get hard they get the idea that they can hit the regualr customers hard in the belief that loyalty will keep them coming back.

Doesn't work for me either....

The way I heard it from a Thai restaurateur, or at least the way I understood it, of course they prefer to keep our business but without minding too much losing our business because at worst we'll go to another restaurant that's also in the process of losing customers...in this way we farangs simply circulate and unwittingly maintain the status quo... Not sure if that applies also to salons and songtaews though.

I agree with all that has been said and have come across this attitude from Thais and it pisses me off!
I would like to say that amongst the dipshits there are some really golden people!
I use a Mom and Pop store perhaps once or twice a week on my way back from town to get bits and pieces( and Mekong) cos they are open late.
The other week I was coming back and stopped off - made my selection and found I had left my bloody wallet at the boatyard- 6 km away .
From what I had bought they could see I was going to the late market as well - get some fish or something - but when I said I would go back to get my wallet they were horrified and said pay next time - and to cap it all gave me - insisted -unasked -200 baht to go to the market with !!!
That is what I mean by golden people!
They can have my custom any day

^Oh, yeah, there are some good people definitely. Our vet has just neutered one of our dogs for free (he offered) & when I went to collect another which has been in there for a few days having tests etc, the price came to 2,410. First they knocked it down to 2,200 for me, but when I checked I only had 1,000 of the center's money on me. They just said pay next time. Then I asked about ordering some anti parasite vaccine (quite expensive - 2,000bt + per bottle). They were going to give me the bottle of that as well & trust me to come back & pay the lot.

Originally Posted by keda

The way I heard it from a Thai restaurateur, or at least the way I understood it, of course they prefer to keep our business but without minding too much losing our business because at worst we'll go to another restaurant that's also in the process of losing customers...in this way we farangs simply circulate and unwittingly maintain the status quo... Not sure if that applies also to salons and songtaews though.

That's an interesting economic theory there, but it does not take into account a factor Thais should be most familiar with: gossip, aka word of mouth.

I suppose in a place like Pattaya, with new punters streaming in by the plane-load every day, it might not matter. My local cornerstore, by comparison, may well wonder why I walk pass it just that little bit further every day and return with a couple of bags filled with shopping, politely nodding and grinning at them.

Originally Posted by Happyman

That is what I mean by golden people!

Originally Posted by November Rain

Oh, yeah, there are some good people definitely.

Can you two pack it in, or Dickcheeseforbrains will get a bit narky.

I did the same thing in my mate's apartment with my bare feet (fucking stupid design though). If it makes Jr feel any better, tell him a big English lump cried like a baby too.

I'm lying though.

Originally Posted by Wayne Kerr

No offense, but it seems a bit weird that you'd be reaching for your camera when your son is in such obvious pain.

Originally Posted by Driventowin

That rope says don't sit... Not, don't touch....Especially to a young boy.

Check the action figure on the drink cup. Wayne Jnr explained he just wanted a close look and put his hand down so he get closer.

Left a burn like you put a car cigarette lighter on your palm. At the time he just wanted a band aid, in fact he told the OH&S dickhead that he wanted one in good enough Thai for a 4 yr old with a burnt hand. Dopey bastards where laughing amongst themselves ... of course they didn't have one. I took him down to the Boots on the floor below to buy one to make him feel better until we got home and could treat it etc.

He's okay now. Can still play his PS2. I think he's more worried about the bollocking he got from his mother when he explained to her that it was the "fucking" idiot designers fault. I'll have to teach him some more discreet words for slagging the wankers .

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

No offense, but it seems a bit weird that you'd be reaching for your camera when your son is in such obvious pain.

Maybe weird, no actually certainly weird come to think of it. A quick shot I took on my mobile phone during a heated discussion with the OH&S chap when he told me it was my sons fault as they had a safety rope up and that they had no first aid. Well fuck me. Rather than deck the guy, I snapped a shot and told him I'd be in touch with his boss before rushing my son down to the Boots to buy some stuff. I usually don't act like that unless I'm really pissed off. Yeah it was completely weird behaviour.

Sorry if you find my actions weird Frankenstein .

Oh yeah, no offence taken .

Poor little bugger I've burnt myself on one of those very painful.

Originally Posted by Wayne Kerr

he told me it was my sons fault as they had a safety rope up

The Thai's have taken blame shifting to another level. The classic example must be when, If I remember correctly a guy knocked down DD's wall at his land in Patters with a 5 ton dirt leveller "you didnt build the wall strong enough"

Originally Posted by Wayne Kerr

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

No offense, but it seems a bit weird that you'd be reaching for your camera when your son is in such obvious pain.

Maybe weird, no actually certainly weird come to think of it. A quick shot I took on my mobile phone during a heated discussion with the OH&S chap when he told me it was my sons fault as they had a safety rope up and that they had no first aid. Well fuck me. Rather than deck the guy, I snapped a shot and told him I'd be in touch with his boss before rushing my son down to the Boots to buy some stuff. I usually don't act like that unless I'm really pissed off. Yeah it was completely weird behaviour.

Sorry if you find my actions weird Frankenstein .

Oh yeah, no offence taken .

I think it shows great loyalty to the Teakdoor members myself. Burn him again Wayne!

joking of course!

Originally Posted by Wayne Kerr

My hat goes off to the health and safety officer at the Esplanade shopping centre on Ratchada Rd. Wayne Jnr burnt his hand badly on one of the promo displays near by where one buys tickets to see a film.

Bloody bad burn so he was in a fair bit of pain, and after spending way too long trying to get one of the dopey pricks loitering around there to call someone to bring some ice or something, the dickhead OH&S bloke arrives. Before offering to help out, he points out that they had a safety rope up. This sent my blood pressure through the roof, which he copped the brunt of. As you can see from the pic below the rope does nothing to keep kids away from the bloody stupid hot lights on the floor.

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Sure Wayne Jnr should know better. Sure I should have kept a better eye on him. But fuck any arsehole who tells me that is a safety rope!

Sorry about the kid and hope he's ok now...H&S sounds like the guy that warn drivers about holes in the road by dropping tree branches in them.

Btw anyone notice the hole bang in the middle of the 2nd Rd and Pty Tai junction? Not an easy bucket of earth job, because it's a thin layer of tarmac opening into a cavern...my guess is four major accidents or two deaths before City Hall sends someone to look into it (sic).

I'd like to nominate the guy at the gas station this morning who filled my car up and then told me it would be B2,500.

Nothing really unusual under normal circumstances, but he seemed to fail to appreciate that the reason I'd asked for B1,000 only was because that was all I happened to have on me. His blank look when I explained this to him made me want to slam his head in my car door. Repeatedly.

My aggravation was compounded somewhat when following a sigh of resignation and asking him where the nearest ATM was he directed me to the University. Being that I was at that stage already late for work the prospect of taking even more time to rectify a mistake he'd made caused much righteous indignation.